From what I was told by a USPS carrier back in about 2004-2005 (knew her socially, she wasn't the one delivering my mail), the carriers got more money from manually sorting more pieces of mail, and because of that moving the Netflix stuff off the sorters was a win/win for them because the disk mailers were leaving trash behind when they got shredded. Not sure how the piecework for pay thing works, may be part of their union contract or something.
from the article (remember, reading is FUNdamental....):
Using data from a NASA radar that flew aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists have detected ice deposits near the moon's north pole. NASA's Mini-SAR instrument, a lightweight, synthetic aperture radar, found more than 40 small craters with water ice. The craters range in size from 1 to 9 miles (2 to15 km) in diameter. Although the total amount of ice depends on its thickness in each crater, it's estimated there could be at least 1.3 trillion pounds (600 million metric tons) of water ice.
The great thing is, once it's being used, the moon craters provide convenient locations for wastewater impound lagoons; cheaper than 100% recycling.
Reading through this thread, I expected to see many inappropriate directors mentioned, but for god sakes, Kevin Smith? What would he do, film the entire 3-book series from one camera angle? And what parts would Ben Affleck and Jason Lee play? Smith himself as Hari Seldon, stoically delivering messages from beyond... Jay would have to be the Mule, of course, willing entire planets to give him more chronic blunts and such. Hmm, come to think of it, could be worse.
Not sure what other places use, but the last 3 places I've worked all put this stuff (it may also be labeled HB Institutional or some such way)... 5 minutes on the burner and this stuff turns black as used motor oil. gaack.
I drink it anyway. It's free.
Bennies taken away.... company phones are gone now. Comp time's all but dead. Don't get me started.
OK so I'm not the only one wondering why the Russians are offended by implications of terrorism, when they're apparently not offended by implied gross incompetence, which the latest (C&C RA3) seems to promote with great comic effect. For god's sake never let Tim Curry mess with the space/time continuum!
This server and its software has likely been off of normal support for a long time. The remaining choice left to the House is to sign up for 'extended support' with IBM, which is their high-rate time-and-materials gouge. I know first-hand from working with them recently that IBM will NOT bend on supportability; at IBM, renewable support contracts are not just their bread and butter; it's the whole damn sandwich.
Or the House could have contracted with a 3rd party support vendor, cut their bill by 60% or more, and taken their chances.
Cserve had a lot of firsts... the Human Sexuality forum was one... HSX-200, not that I'd know, *cough*... but most were computer-related, like the hubbub about copyrighting a file type (.GIF, where they'd licensed the Sperry LZW code to compress the image data better than.RLE or.MAC files) or online new content, like the local paper (Columbus Dispatch). Needed online weather radar graphics in 1987? Cserve had them (as did a few other places, Weather Underground maybe).
As I've lived in the same area as Cserve for 25 years, it is easy to look back and see the boom and bust cycle in play... the 7-story office building they built by the highway, which (since the sale to AOL) has had 4 or 5 names on it by now, most of them failed dot.com/telecom names (MCI, Worldcom, etc). The old HQ on Henderson Road, one would never assume driving past it that it was anything important; low-slung building filled with data center and a few offices. The last person I ran into from there, maybe 3 or 4 years ago, said it was a skeleton crew doing little more than keeping the lights on.
But that is the way of companies; they come and go. Sooner or later, Yahoo and Google will suffer the same fate.
The article seems to define health care as what some of us would call 'direct patient care'... but doctors and hospitals are only part of the big health-care money pie. There are the companies that manufacture the drugs and medical products, and those (like the one I work for) which distribute them. Getting everything from stents to splints distributed to your local doctor, hospital and pharmacy (much of which is ordered electronically) takes a huge amount of IT capacity. Patient records will catch up eventually, but anybody who has worked in an office over the last 20 years and heard "next year, we're going to buy document imaging and scan it all into the system", knows to take that with a big grain of salt... believe it when, and not before, you see it.
commute: yeah no kidding, isn't 71 or 490 built with something like 5 lanes on each side now in the metro area? Makes it easy to get away from Downtown after a Tribe game.
These 'quality-of-life' articles come and go like event calendars in the local paper's entertainment section. Nothing to fill column inches? Let's crap on markets where we won't lose anybody. Meanwhile, run a complementary piece about 'where the jobs are', and cover all the target markets. Philadelphia? A sh*thole, but we need that sh*thole, so put it in our top 10 places to be. Avg $51k for an IT specialist in Philly? Hah, the average is better here in Columbus, and possibly Cleveland too, since they didn't see fit to cite the average salary in the 'worst' article. No point in going on. The whole thing's just a troll.
Top 10 list of "where the IT jobs are at": all big ad market cities. You can't pay me enough to move to Chicago, EVER, much less for a job, but it's on the CIO darling list.
Bottom 7 list: small/mid-market and rust belt cities. Way to dig deep, CIO.
Sure, Cleveland has it down side, but compared to the 'top 10 cities for IT jobs' that they also have a slideshow for, the place is WAY cheaper to live in, and if you're smart you're not living in the city anyway, when a nice clean house in the nice clean burbs is dirt cheap. Plus if you get overworked and have a heart attack, head over to the Cleveland Clinic; they'll patch you up real good.
So people from SoCal, how's LA to work IT in, what with the crappy traffic and screwy government?
So it says he's a "payroll team lead", which seems to hint that he's still a bargaining unit (read: union) employee and not management. That would explain the odd-sounding penalty; iirc, firing a bargaining unit employee pretty much took an act of god to do.
--> (Was a State employee for 10 years; knew 2 people who were fired in that time.)
Im looking through a hole in the sky
Im seeing nowhere through the eyes of a lie
Im getting closer to the end of the line
Im living easy where the sun doesnt shine
Im living in a room without any view
Im living free because the rents never due
The synonyms of all the things that Ive said
Are just the riddles that are built in my head
Hole in the sky, take me to heaven
Window in time, through it I fly
Ive seen the stars disappear in the sun
The shootings easy if youve got the right gun
And even though Im sitting waiting for mars
I dont believe theres any future in cause
Hole in the sky, take me to heaven
Window in time, through it I fly
Yeah
Ive watched the dogs of war enjoying their feast
Ive seen the western world go down in the east
The food of love became the greed of our time
But now Im living on the profits of pride
The tough part about films like Soylent Green (which I also liked), Silent Running, Apes, and many others (even Day the Earth Stood Still) is that they're seen more as contemporary social commentary than as science fiction, and that there's probably a generation gap (*) as to what constitutes the genre of sci-fi right here and now. I suppose it could be said that some new flicks like Children of Man or Gattaca are equal to that same socially-focused bunch, but anymore they're much fewer and farther between, imo.
(*) - It's all sci-fi as long as those damn kids stay off my lawn!
Favorites: Star Wars Star Trek Serenity "Predator and Friends" (P2, Alien and P) Any Philip K. Dick based story (maybe; haven't seen Paycheck yet...)
Best Sci-fi not mentioned in the RTFA list: The Day The Earth Stood Still (good sci-fi isn't necessarily exciting) Silent Running (ditto) various incarnations of The War of the Worlds various incarnations of Invasion of the Body Snatchers The Fly (the original) Fantastic Voyage
Mark me redundant, but the whole thing is just one big beauty contest, and Serenity looks good in a swimsuit. Additionally, the old films look bad because in many cases people have only seen them on TV, and the TV edits of many old classics are crap.
I'd mod it up if I could. And add that ANY job that can be commoditized by technology or Net-enabled commerce (bank teller, book seller, newspaper worker) should be avoided. Avoid large corporations; if you think that IT is an irreplaceable part of a non-IT business... think again; you're on some execs balance sheet as an expense to be reduced.
There's nothing to do in Athens, Ohio except drink and screw (and apparently download every byte on the Net). It's a liberal arts school whose student body is at best of modest means. Most of the OU grads I've known have been office assistants, who no doubt have transported their surfing skills to the workplace. Mark me down for flamebait if you must, but this headline should be filed with other 'stunning' headlines like "GW Bush dumb", "Britney Spears flakes out again", and "Vista unsecure after all".
So why does Consumerist get to say who's a fake blog, when Consumerist itself is just one of about a dozen front-ends for privately-held company Gawker Media? It, and the others, maintain the look of either personal or group blogs, and make no mention on their front pages of the business behind them.
How much business? From Wiki:
While Denton does not go into detail over Gawker Media's finances, he has downplayed the profit potential of blogs[1], declaring "Blogs are likely to be better for readers than for capitalists. While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses" on his personal site[2]. However, in the February 20, 2006 issue of New York Magazine, Jossip founder David Hauslaib estimated Gawker.com's annual advertising revenue to be at least $1 million two years ago, and possibly over $2 million a year[3]. Combined with low operating costs -- mostly web hosting fees and writer salaries -- Denton is believed to be turning a healthy profit.
I may have posted this link before, but since there are a few posts which misstate the current metal value of US coinage, here it is again: http://www.coinflation.com/ .
IMO, we should lop off the last digit, and use nothing lower than a dime in cash coinage. Aside from simplifying the change, it would create a new burst of Y2K-like program rewrites for many financial systems in the US, boosting IT spend and having the side benefit of making people think about what it is that our money really represents (that is, a means of exchange and not a store of value).
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From what I was told by a USPS carrier back in about 2004-2005 (knew her socially, she wasn't the one delivering my mail), the carriers got more money from manually sorting more pieces of mail, and because of that moving the Netflix stuff off the sorters was a win/win for them because the disk mailers were leaving trash behind when they got shredded. Not sure how the piecework for pay thing works, may be part of their union contract or something.
Using data from a NASA radar that flew aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists have detected ice deposits near the moon's north pole. NASA's Mini-SAR instrument, a lightweight, synthetic aperture radar, found more than 40 small craters with water ice. The craters range in size from 1 to 9 miles (2 to15 km) in diameter. Although the total amount of ice depends on its thickness in each crater, it's estimated there could be at least 1.3 trillion pounds (600 million metric tons) of water ice.
The great thing is, once it's being used, the moon craters provide convenient locations for wastewater impound lagoons; cheaper than 100% recycling.
Reading through this thread, I expected to see many inappropriate directors mentioned, but for god sakes, Kevin Smith? What would he do, film the entire 3-book series from one camera angle? And what parts would Ben Affleck and Jason Lee play? Smith himself as Hari Seldon, stoically delivering messages from beyond... Jay would have to be the Mule, of course, willing entire planets to give him more chronic blunts and such. Hmm, come to think of it, could be worse.
I drink it anyway. It's free.
Bennies taken away.... company phones are gone now. Comp time's all but dead. Don't get me started.
"at least I have job..." lol
This server and its software has likely been off of normal support for a long time. The remaining choice left to the House is to sign up for 'extended support' with IBM, which is their high-rate time-and-materials gouge. I know first-hand from working with them recently that IBM will NOT bend on supportability; at IBM, renewable support contracts are not just their bread and butter; it's the whole damn sandwich. Or the House could have contracted with a 3rd party support vendor, cut their bill by 60% or more, and taken their chances.
Up to the point where they lose all their permafrost... a few buildings... a LOT of their roads...
Pretty sure that addresses were reused when a member left for good... someone got mine after I quit in 1997.
As I've lived in the same area as Cserve for 25 years, it is easy to look back and see the boom and bust cycle in play... the 7-story office building they built by the highway, which (since the sale to AOL) has had 4 or 5 names on it by now, most of them failed dot.com/telecom names (MCI, Worldcom, etc). The old HQ on Henderson Road, one would never assume driving past it that it was anything important; low-slung building filled with data center and a few offices. The last person I ran into from there, maybe 3 or 4 years ago, said it was a skeleton crew doing little more than keeping the lights on.
But that is the way of companies; they come and go. Sooner or later, Yahoo and Google will suffer the same fate.
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The article seems to define health care as what some of us would call 'direct patient care'... but doctors and hospitals are only part of the big health-care money pie. There are the companies that manufacture the drugs and medical products, and those (like the one I work for) which distribute them. Getting everything from stents to splints distributed to your local doctor, hospital and pharmacy (much of which is ordered electronically) takes a huge amount of IT capacity. Patient records will catch up eventually, but anybody who has worked in an office over the last 20 years and heard "next year, we're going to buy document imaging and scan it all into the system", knows to take that with a big grain of salt... believe it when, and not before, you see it.
These 'quality-of-life' articles come and go like event calendars in the local paper's entertainment section. Nothing to fill column inches? Let's crap on markets where we won't lose anybody. Meanwhile, run a complementary piece about 'where the jobs are', and cover all the target markets. Philadelphia? A sh*thole, but we need that sh*thole, so put it in our top 10 places to be. Avg $51k for an IT specialist in Philly? Hah, the average is better here in Columbus, and possibly Cleveland too, since they didn't see fit to cite the average salary in the 'worst' article. No point in going on. The whole thing's just a troll.
Bottom 7 list: small/mid-market and rust belt cities. Way to dig deep, CIO.
Sure, Cleveland has it down side, but compared to the 'top 10 cities for IT jobs' that they also have a slideshow for, the place is WAY cheaper to live in, and if you're smart you're not living in the city anyway, when a nice clean house in the nice clean burbs is dirt cheap. Plus if you get overworked and have a heart attack, head over to the Cleveland Clinic; they'll patch you up real good.
So people from SoCal, how's LA to work IT in, what with the crappy traffic and screwy government?
For Reference...
old broadcasts of HeeHaw streaming out into the Universe... with Minnie Pearl screeching "How-DEEEE!"
;)
So really, it's just the Earth saying hello
--> (Was a State employee for 10 years; knew 2 people who were fired in that time.)
courtesy Black Sabbath, ca. 1975
Im looking through a hole in the sky
Im seeing nowhere through the eyes of a lie
Im getting closer to the end of the line
Im living easy where the sun doesnt shine
Im living in a room without any view
Im living free because the rents never due
The synonyms of all the things that Ive said
Are just the riddles that are built in my head
Hole in the sky, take me to heaven
Window in time, through it I fly
Ive seen the stars disappear in the sun
The shootings easy if youve got the right gun
And even though Im sitting waiting for mars
I dont believe theres any future in cause
Hole in the sky, take me to heaven
Window in time, through it I fly
Yeah
Ive watched the dogs of war enjoying their feast
Ive seen the western world go down in the east
The food of love became the greed of our time
But now Im living on the profits of pride
The tough part about films like Soylent Green (which I also liked), Silent Running, Apes, and many others (even Day the Earth Stood Still) is that they're seen more as contemporary social commentary than as science fiction, and that there's probably a generation gap (*) as to what constitutes the genre of sci-fi right here and now. I suppose it could be said that some new flicks like Children of Man or Gattaca are equal to that same socially-focused bunch, but anymore they're much fewer and farther between, imo.
(*) - It's all sci-fi as long as those damn kids stay off my lawn!
(**) - Chimpan A... sweet
Favorites:
Star Wars
Star Trek
Serenity
"Predator and Friends" (P2, Alien and P)
Any Philip K. Dick based story (maybe; haven't seen Paycheck yet...)
Best Sci-fi not mentioned in the RTFA list:
The Day The Earth Stood Still (good sci-fi isn't necessarily exciting)
Silent Running (ditto)
various incarnations of The War of the Worlds
various incarnations of Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Fly (the original)
Fantastic Voyage
Mark me redundant, but the whole thing is just one big beauty contest, and Serenity looks good in a swimsuit. Additionally, the old films look bad because in many cases people have only seen them on TV, and the TV edits of many old classics are crap.
So is it assuming too much to say that at that previous job, there was no HR department? Sounds pretty lame.
OP: Count me as a separator, btw...
I'd mod it up if I could. And add that ANY job that can be commoditized by technology or Net-enabled commerce (bank teller, book seller, newspaper worker) should be avoided. Avoid large corporations; if you think that IT is an irreplaceable part of a non-IT business... think again; you're on some execs balance sheet as an expense to be reduced.
There's nothing to do in Athens, Ohio except drink and screw (and apparently download every byte on the Net). It's a liberal arts school whose student body is at best of modest means. Most of the OU grads I've known have been office assistants, who no doubt have transported their surfing skills to the workplace. Mark me down for flamebait if you must, but this headline should be filed with other 'stunning' headlines like "GW Bush dumb", "Britney Spears flakes out again", and "Vista unsecure after all".
... we find out who that BloodNinja guy was...
So you're saying the Shuttle will be up on blocks. OK. Wonder how much a really big Trans Am decal would cost?
How much business? From Wiki: While Denton does not go into detail over Gawker Media's finances, he has downplayed the profit potential of blogs[1], declaring "Blogs are likely to be better for readers than for capitalists. While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses" on his personal site[2]. However, in the February 20, 2006 issue of New York Magazine, Jossip founder David Hauslaib estimated Gawker.com's annual advertising revenue to be at least $1 million two years ago, and possibly over $2 million a year[3]. Combined with low operating costs -- mostly web hosting fees and writer salaries -- Denton is believed to be turning a healthy profit.
I may have posted this link before, but since there are a few posts which misstate the current metal value of US coinage, here it is again: http://www.coinflation.com/ . IMO, we should lop off the last digit, and use nothing lower than a dime in cash coinage. Aside from simplifying the change, it would create a new burst of Y2K-like program rewrites for many financial systems in the US, boosting IT spend and having the side benefit of making people think about what it is that our money really represents (that is, a means of exchange and not a store of value).